Re: What is a "Right"?

Thanks for posting this from Bill Whittle. He is awesome. His web site,
www.ejectejecteject.com, has several long essays of profound wisdom. I like
the one explaining the difference between the functional nations and the
majority of the nations that are not functional. He uses the example of the
thought experiment called the prisoners dilema. By making the easy choices
we are slowly moving this country toward the third world rules of the road,
at which point dishonesty and violence is the rational choice.

http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000157.html

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Scott

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What Is a Right and How Do We Know?
Wherein we take down Obama's Right to Health Care, old-school style.

By Bill Whittle

During the presidential debate Tuesday night, Barack Obama was asked
if he thought health care was a right.

He said he thought it was a right. Well, if you accept that premise, I
think you can ask some logical follow-up questions: Food is more
important than health care. You die pretty quickly without food. Do we
have a right to food in America? What about shelter? Do we have a
right to housing? And if we do have a right to housing, what standard
of housing do we have a right to? And if it is a right, due to all
Americans, wouldn't that mean that no one should have to accept any
housing, or health care, which is inferior to anyone else's since it's
a right?

Do we have a right to be safe? Do we have a right to be comfortable?
Do we have a right to wide-screen televisions? Where does this end?

See, by taking something to a ridiculous extreme, we can illuminate
the problem here what is a right? How do we know? What's the
difference between the right to free speech which is enshrined in the
Constitution versus the right to health care, which is not?

Well, back in the day, we would simply say that a right has legal
authority it's in the Constitution and therefore it's a not just a
right, it's a birthright. So why shouldn't we amend the Constitution
to include the rights to health care, food, housing, education all
the rest? What's the difference between the rights we have and the
rights Obama wants to give us?

Simply this: Constitutional rights protect us from things:
intimidation, illegal search and seizure, self-incrimination, and so
on. The revolutionary idea of our Founding Fathers was that people had
a God-given right to live as they saw fit. Our constitutional rights
protect us from the power of government.

But these new so-called rights are about the government who the
Founders saw as the enemy giving us things: food, health care,
education... And when we have a right to be given stuff that
previously we had to work for, then there is no reason , none to go
and work for them. The goody bag has no bottom, except bankruptcy and
ruin.

Does that ring a little familiar these days? Because isn't the danger
here that if you're offered something for nothing you'll take it?

Only it's not something for nothing. Free health-care costs us
something precious, and no less precious for being invisible. Because
there's a word for someone who has their food, housing and care
provided for them for people who owe their existence to someone else.

And that word is slaves."




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A key to the mentality of the left
is that it judges itself by its best intentions,
and judges its opponents - America chief among them -
by their worst deeds.
David Horowitz


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